Garageband Issue importing songs

I'm having an issue importing songs from iTunes (AAC, MP3, etc) into Garageband. If I drag it from iTunes to Garageband, the plus sign appears and it says its importing the song, but then after one second it doesn't do anything. I've tried multiple files and this happens on all of them. I also tried putting the file on the desktop then dragging it in and that doesn't do anything at all (file just bounces back to the desktop.) I looked around in the menus and such and theres nothing in there that would refer to me being able to import tracks.

Any advice on what the problem is? I just got the new iPhone 3G today and want to make me some ringtones.

I've tried dragging the file from Finder, and from the Media Browser in GarageBand. I've tried taking it from the recorder which has the file on its SD card. It claims to be importing. It takes as much time as I would suspect it to import, but the track remains empty.

I've tried dragging the file into the track, into the place where it says "Drag Apple Loops Here," into random other spaces just for kicks.

I've tried it in a house, with a mouse (well a track-pad), on a boat with a goat.

I've tried it before coffee, after coffee, before beer, after beer. Nothing works!

I do have two other songs that came from my digital recorder and got in there, and as I recall that's how I did it, just good old drag and drop, but it's not working now.

It seems like it must be a user failure, but it also seems so stupendously simple I don't know how I could screw it up.

I have the same issue, I have recorded interviews on a Marantz Digi Recorder onto flash cards and cannot import. It says it is but does nothing! It imports songs no worries. These are .mp3's it should work???

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